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There are a few common metrics we use in agile teams: sprint burndown charts, release burnup charts, team velocity. They’re common because they communicate practical information, but they’re not the only metrics we can employ. Here are three met...

  Test managers, leads, and practitioners often turn to the process of testing itself to gain these improvements. Even when testing is good, the question becomes, Is it good enough? Is that the right question?

As the test lead on our flagship product, I live in the backlog, and I breathe these bugs. A normal release for us fixes roughly 20 bugs that are unrelated to new work. With a backlog of about 200 bugs to choose from, I had to learn how to prioritize bugs a...

I recently had the pleasure of running my tutorial, how to lead continuous delivery with Testing, at Agile Testing Days. With twenty-two students, the tutorial was well attended. What surprised me was the demographics.

Metrics and measurements are all around us. They inform and are tracked in every part of our lives, from our commute to work to how people perceive the economy is behaving. When used properly they are a great help to our understanding of nearly everything. ...

Your agile team might think that the developers collaborate with developers and testers collaborate with testers. However, the more the various people collaborate across specialty, the better the product can be. And, they might be able to finish the work fa...

 Too many regression tests, too little time. Whatever your feeling about regression tests or test cases, we all do it in some form. Using TestRail to coordinate testing, we manage to get the whole company involved in our regression testing.

For an agile project, having clear and concise exit criteria makes it easier to understand the scope and avoid going overboard while keeping a tab on your quality. Let’s look at some ways to structure your exit criteria at the sprint, user story, and ...

  Test Automation has become ubiquitous, a bit like wifi. It is everywhere in software development. Sometimes it is done powerfully and well, other times, it is suboptimal. Let’s revisit some of the reasons why.Automated testing allows us to be free...

How DO people become testers? Can testers with non-traditional backgrounds and paths succeed? What knowledge and skills does it take to have a successful career in testing?

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of TestRail 6.1 for both our cloud and server customers, with a number of feature improvements for standard and Enterprise TestRail users.TestRail 6.1 for both our cloud and server customers, with a n...

Watch this recorded webinar for an introduction to the powerful TestRail API. Learn how the API is organized. See examples of data submission and retrieval, plus an automation example. The session concludes with Q&A.